"The project ""PROJECTION OF THE VET THROUGH EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS"" was created in response to the need for vocational schools to provide their students with the opportunity to expand and improve the quality of their practices in the workplace in European companies. The difficult employment situation in Spain, where youth unemployment exceeds 50%, makes it difficult for many young people to find their first job: mobility projects facilitate and expand the expectations of entering the labor market. The project, with a duration of 12 months, has been designed so that 74 students or recent graduates of middle grade from the professional families of administration, health, commerce and electrical and automatic installations, enjoy a one-month internship that has allowed, in the case of students, integrate it into their cycles of internships undertaken within the module “labor practices” (FCT). Workplace locations have been made in Italy, UK, Malta, France and Portugal. Also for 19 IES Teachers who have completed their training (Job Shadowing practices) and UK, Mala, Italy. The main objective of the project has been to allow participants to develop, through internships in European companies, skills that practically complete the skills acquired during their professional training. The main activities carried out by the project partners are: preparation of mobility, including the selection of participants, their initial evaluation, their previous training, logistical and contractual aspects and coordination; the stay and the start of the program in the companies. Mobility has also included cultural activities. Dissemination activities and mobility itself have had an impact at local, regional and national levels. Although not involved in the project, other organizations at the local, regional and labor levels have benefited from the results of the project: an improvement in the skills of young people. An increase in young employment rates. The possibility of contacting other European institutions to share their best practices. Improve the quality of education given in schools, decrease school dropout, expand their language skills and their ability to receive foreign students. Know the new models of ECTV certification and how to use them. Apart from the impact on the participants. The project has also affected the partners, promoting the approach and cooperation between businesses and schools. Monitoring The evolution of the participants has been monitored by the means established in the project. Project evaluation. Dissemination. Dissemination skills have been planned throughout the project. The participants have been evaluated. The entire process has been certified with ECVET and has been clearly defined since an initial evaluation. The project is directly linked to the 2020 strategic priorities and will help the EU and its member states to generate greater employability, productivity and social cohesion."

Project context, the number and type / profile of the participants:Prof-tourism: ,, European Competencies for professionals in tourism '', Key Action 1 - mobility of people, Project Reference, no. : 2016-1-RO01-KA102-024239.Between September 2016 - August 2018, ,, Vasile Bacalu'' Highschool Mahmudia takes part in the Erasmus + for professional training (VET). The project beneficiaries are 40 students(organized in four streams - streams 1 and 2 -20 students with mobility in 2017 and flows 3 and 4 -other 20 school children with mobility in 2018) from Xth grade vocational education lasting 3 years(Hotel worker qualification), XIth and XIIth grade highschool classes(specialization-Technician in tourism), profile services.Training through mobility and European investment means the chance to compare school systems, to know the hotel system and travel agency policies - European level, the way they operate.The project is implemented by a team of teachers and aims: supporting Romanian participants to gain work experience in an European environment in order to facilitate professional integration, developing professional skills and personal communication, cooperation in labor relations, cultural skills, in order to increase graduate’s competitiveness (vocational and highschool education), creating models and collaboration strategies at institutional level which adds to Romanian technological education institutes to provide and train relevant qualifications for the labor market.Objectives:O1Developing the specialized technical competences of training modules through internships in companies in the EU, which allow students to organize and lead activities within tourism companies, to base marketing strategies, develop product offerings and services of the company, to conduct economic and financial efficiency analysis of the company;O2Facilitating and improving the transition from school to active life through entrepreneurship, increasing employment opportunities on the labor market of the future graduates, by creating learning contexts in a real business environment;O3Language development and communication skills in Romanian and English, needed for the performance or workload required for future professionals in tourismO4Developing social and interpersonal skills, as well as intercultural skills of the participants through contact with other peoples and cultures.Regarding the provisions of the initial application, we mention that a letter extending the target group set out in the project was sent, including classes X and XI, professional education because livestock from high school classes did not provide the number of students needed which was stipulated in the project application. We must specify that the application was approved by the National Agency for Community Programs in Education and Professional Training.

The summary of the Project In the Project called ‘ Job Shadowing in Europe’, Çankaya İMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schooll students are going to train in Portugal . Our overseas partners are Hotel do Terço- BRAGA-Portugal, Apulia Praia Hotel-BRAGA-Portugal and A.I.A.M.(Associação Intercultural Amigos da Mobilidade) - BRAGA- Portugal. Job shodowing in Europe is prepared for students in 10th and 11th classes . The students are between 15-18 years old and they are from our school . They were Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage students .In this Project, 9 students trained in Portugal at 4 star hotels. In both hotels the participant students were from Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage Departments . .Vocational knowledge and skills are very important and necessary for our students but it is not satisfying alone. In long terms, not only vocational knowledge and skills but also vocational foreign language is important and necessary to find a place in Tourism sector at international level. With this project ,we aimed to fulfil this deficiency of our participantsAnd we did so. It was important for our participants (students from Accomodation and Transport and Food and Beverage departments) to adopt international and European standards, to improve their vocational education and skills, to improve not only their basic foreign language knowledge and skills but also to improve their vocational foreign language knowledge ,which is very important in tourism sector.They also learned Portuguese while living everyday life.Now they can understand and speak Portuguese at starter level.The lenght of the project effected language learning positively. Our students are still texting their friends from Portugal both in Turkish and in Portuguese.Our students were so hardworking both in vocational skills and language skills that; some of them were offered to go back after their graduation and work in the hotels in Portugal. By the help and contribution of our overseas partners, Braga in Portugal , our participants worked at 4 star hotels. 3 Accomodation and transport students worked in Hotel de Terco ,2 accomodation and transport ( Front Desk) and 4 Food and Beverage students worked in Apulia Pria Hotel. Our participants worked 8 hours a day. At the hotels the master trainers guided them at their training departments. They went to the hotels and came back to the house by the services which were planned by the organization company.Our students started their job shadowing after the first week because the hotels were crowded with the trainees from the other countries.That week ,our students had orientation activities at the organisation company's campus. At that education campus they worked as receptionists, waiters, cooks and house keepers.During 3 monts ,our students worked,trained and lived with their English as a language,We did not use s translator.Because of the lenght of the project they also learned Portuguese while living everyday life.Now they can understand and speak Portuguese at starter level As a result, in long terms, their obtained goals will be used as a step at job applications and to jump their levels at their present positions. With this Project our participants : 1. Took part and worked in context in international standards . 2. Observed the different technics which were practiced in Portugal and had the chance to compare and contrast them with Turkey’s technics.They provided to transfer the differences between these technics. 3. Increased their self –confidence by going abroad as selected participants and did their training in European countries. 4. Enhanced the interest to Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High Schools. 5. In long terms, our graduate students are going to be preferred personnels in Hotel and Tourism sector in Turkey and in Europe. 6. We are going to disseminate the Project at the other Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational Schools in Türkiye.The dissemination activities are as follows:a) It was published in our school's website.b) We opened two blogsAccomodation and transport students' blog and Food and Beverage students'blog.c) Performance of the project including 3 months for both to the teachers and to the students.d) Preparing boards about project at our school.e) Banners,pens,brochuers ,cases and some other materials.These materials will be distributed at the meetings ,both at our school and at the Education of Ministery meetings. 7. Create strong bonds between our school and the partner organizations. 8. Improve their Vocational knowledge and skills and they will be aware of the innovations in tourism sector. 9. İmprove their foriegn language and vocational foreign language ,which they learned in theory in Türkiye,by practising and establishing dialogues. 10. Be aware of the importance of European Citizenship .During the project;our school's project team and the managers always in contact with both the accompanying teachers and the students.And they provided help when it was necessary.At the second ( middle) visit,the accomodation house and the hotels were visited and controlled and there were no problems found. When we visited the house where the students stayed ,we understood that there were lots of benefits that the students gained.The programmes made by the accompanying teachers ( household chores , shopping , cooking) brought lots of positive things to students' lives.These workshops made the students to stand on their feet and to live their life easily and confidently in a foreign country.The students were checked at the hotels by the accompanying teachers every week.Our students Works were writte in their jobshadowing notebooks of our school.They were checked by this notebooks ,too.They also studied English online at the OLS system and it was checked by the accompanying teachers.And the hours of the online linguistic studies were checked by the project team online regularly. At the end of this Project,our school ‘s Project group will have meetings to transfer the obtained information, experience and innovation to our country.We will announce the project’s results to the other Hotel Management and Tourism High Schools in Türkiye by e-mails about giving information about the project’s blog and the web page in dissemination activities . In order to encourage our school students to participate to these Erasmus Projects, we will record the participants' studies and show the records to the other students.

Our project has been carried out in Bursa Mudanya Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School with 2 students as Food and Beverage Services and Accommodation and Travel Services and 20 students and 4 companion teachers.Our first mobility was carried out in Zespol Szkol Gastronomiczno-Hotelarskich w Bytom in Poland on 11.02.2018 - 24.02.2018 with the participation of 10 students and 2 companions. Thanks to the internship, our students had the opportunity to apply international meat cooking methods and learned how to use these methods in the world cuisines. Food and beverage department students were divided into 2 groups in the workshops during the day. For each day, 1 menu was determined by the chef and materials and occupational safety measures were used for the menu. The menus were meat menus and meat cooking methods were shown and both groups were able to practice their cooking techniques by practicing. Our activities started between 09:00 and 10:00 in the morning and continued until 15:00 after lunch. After the activities, the meeting of our participants with the students of the common institutions and the formation of new friendships, the social aspects of our students through our mobility.Our second mobility was held on 25/03/2018 - 07/04/2018 with the participation of 10 students and 2 companion teachers in the Use of Computer Automation Program at HOTEL APULIA MAR in Portugal. Considering that the tourism sector occupies a significant place in our country, our students completed this internship activity by meeting new practices in the field of front office management, which is the field that first develops the professional staff encountered in this sector. Participant students have gained the ability to use computerized automation programs for accommodation and travel services areas by starting to create a new waiting record at the reception of our foreign partner institution, to make new registration records, to make check-in records, to implement with customer simulation. In our internship activity, our group students applied at the reception of our partner institution, developed their professional skills for accommodation and travel services, and also ensured the development of communication and language skills with the hotel staff and customers.After the internship activities, the participant students have gained the certificate of participation certificates and their vocational, social, cultural and foreign language skills and become more qualified professions by means of Europass mobility documents. Thus, after graduation, our students will be able to take steps to increase employment opportunities in reputable institutions in their respective sectors.On the other hand, in our project, our school has gained a serious organizational experience in the implementation of local, regional, national and European Union projects. In this context, our school has gained prestige and gained new knowledge, skills and behaviors in the Mudanya region thanks to cooperation, management and administration, as well as organization and dissemination activities. Our students, who have been abroad for the first time, have had the opportunity to observe the European culture closely and have strengthened the common values such as the spirit of solidarity, tolerance, team work and cooperation.As a result, from the beginning to the end of the project, the school management, the administrative team and our foreign partners have acted in full coordination within the framework of their duties and responsibilities. Our project has contributed to the professional, linguistic and personal skills of our students and at the same time our students have had the opportunity to see the European culture first hand. In this context, we expect our students to see the effects of their gains closely in the process of employment in the coming years. We have no doubt that both in terms of having received an international document and taking professional, cultural and linguistic experiences at the point of application, they will carry a lot of competitiveness in the tourism sector which requires qualified staff.

Aydin Labor Market Demand Survey Results As of June 3, 2015, waiter service personnel, gas welding welder, sales consultant, body worker, receptionist, cook, housekeeping, beauty and hair care professions. (AYDIN ​​IPA 2015 data) is not seen that every day in the Aydın region waiter, cook, beauty and hair care is increasing the need for labor.Providing the opportunity for the cookery, waiter & service staff and beauty and hair care apprentice students in our region, to provide the opportunity of the adaptation of the basic skills and competencies of the occupational staff of the EU's 2020 targets to the demand-demand harmonization in the labor market and to strengthen the social ties, and to strengthen the cooperation between education and training and business We aim to raise the level of professional competence and skills.We have completed the project with the help of how our waiter apprentices learned how to order food, how to prepare beverages, learn how to make special service and how to communicate with the guest, and to acquire professional skills and competences at European level.In the course of working, our chef apprentices were prepared to prepare soup, to prepare sauce, to prepare salad, to prepare meat and seafood products, to prepare dough and pasta types, to prepare basic dessert varieties and to gain professional skills and competencies.Beauty and Hair care apprentices; by wearing the appropriate dress, the necessary work safety measures and hygiene rules, the hall and sterilization of the tools to be used, customer welcome and customer demands to make haircut, face and hair massage, facial hair removal by removal of hair removal needs to meet the need to acquire professional skills.We have provided new horizons for the professional and vital future of the business ethics of EU member states, the relationship between the employer and employee, and boosted the spirit of entrepreneurship by increasing self-confidence. We gained viewpoints on different cultures and European Union citizenship awareness. By increasing the quality of vocational education of our school, we try to prevent unemployment by providing apprentices to gain knowledge and skills in their fields by reducing their leaving school. We strive to ensure that they learn foreign languages ​​and communicate with their European peers and keep track of professional developments at European level. We ensure that apprentices learn to cope with unemployment problems by ensuring that they have the necessary equipment and professional qualifications with a high quality and functional vocational training and labor market.Our general activities in our project; pre-preparation, selection of project participants, pre-mobility preparations, foreign language training abroad internship activities, monitoring and evaluation activities, formal recognition of learning outcomes, project process evaluation activities, dissemination activities of the project results and reporting.Our project; Erasmus + vocational training is the learning mobility of apprentice students (Key Action1, KA1). The participant group of our project is a student of 10 service staff (2 disabled), 9 cookery students and 5 beauty and hair care students who were educated at our school in Didim, Aydın. 24 apprentice students attended the 5 companion teachers for monitoring and evaluation tasks during the internship.Our project started on September 1, 2017, lasting 16 months and ending 4 December with 31 December 2018.Flow1: The apprentice teacher in the field of 5 service staff completed 1 day between 18-03 and 18:00 hours in Vienna, Austria between the dates of 03-03-2018- 17-03-2018 for 2 weeks starting from 6 days. hours of application.Flow2: 9 The apprentice in the culinary field 2 instructors between 01-04-2018 and 21-04-2018, in Berlin, Germany for 3 weeks, starting at 13:00 hours at 18:00 hours, 5 hours a day they did the application.Flow3: The apprentice in the field of 5 service staff (2 of whom are in special need) and 1 companion teacher between 06-05-2018-19-05-2018, 2 hours in Esposende, Portugal, starting at 12:00 o'clock 17:00 hours finished, 5 hours a day they practiced.Flow 4: 5 beauty and hair care with apprentices in the field 1 instructor between 06-05-2018-19-05-2018, 2 weeks in Barcelos, Portugal, starting at 11:00 hours, starting at 4:00 hours over, They practiced for 5 hours.At the end of the project, our apprentices received certificate of participation in the project, europass, europass language passport, europass cv and ECVET certificates. We increase the impact of the project by sharing the results of the project with the peers in national and local press, social networks. The European school network E Twinning was shared by the European dissemination tools, the ERASMUS + outcome platform VALOR. With the Erasmus + DAYS event on October 12, 2018, the photos of our projects were shared to our students and teachers.